From the 18th year of Kaiyuan (730) to the 22nd of December, the Khitan invaded the border of the Tang Dynasty many times. Zhao, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty in Youzhou, was a greedy and incompetent person who could not resist. In the spring of 20 years, Xin 'an Wang Liwei led the army to win the Khitan; In the spring of 2 1 year, five generals in the Tang Dynasty were defeated, and more than 6,000 Tang Jun died. In December of the same year, Zhang Shousheng was appointed as our army's envoy to Youzhou, won the Khitan, and was rewarded the following year. Twenty-six people were defeated in Kaiyuan. Zhang concealed his failure. This poem written by Gao Shi is the war that lasted for many years.
The ideological content of the poem is rich, complex and profound: 1, praising patriotic soldiers for their heroic resistance to the enemy and hard struggle; 2. Condemn the blunder of border defense and the incompetence of generals, which led to a protracted war; Writing about the grievances in the army makes the soldiers chilling, satirizing the arrogance of the general and not caring about the soldiers; 3. sympathize with the homesickness of the soldiers in the hard war. There is contrast, criticism, resentment, irony, praise and sympathy in the poem. It involves all aspects of the combatants: the son of heaven, generals, soldiers, homesick women and enemies. It expresses the poet's complex feelings and deep thinking about this war, which is enough to represent the general attitude of scholars in the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the war, so it is known as the masterpiece of frontier poems in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Selected Poems of Tang Dynasty: The words are simple and profound, and the irony is arranged. This road came from 300, weakened in the Tang Dynasty, and died in the Song Dynasty. Express of Tang Poetry: This is the true face of singing.